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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I love all of the nominations for Abbott Elementary--such a great show.

Agree about Reese Witherspoon--I think Jennifer Aniston is much better.

I was hoping for a nomination for Millie Bobby Brown.[/quote]

I finally started watching and love Abbott Elementary. So mad though that it isn't like the other tv shows I can watch on demand. I already pay to much for tv and now I have to pay extra for the shows that I missed. [/quote]

It’s a cute little sit com that will last a couple of seasons and then be forgotten. I like watching it but the fact is if the cast was white or set in a high poverty white area this show would never ever have made even the hint of nomination. It’s just not that amazing. The acting is ok. It’s standard sitcom acting. Again it’s enjoyable. I like watching if I remember to do so but it’s by no means award winning. 🤷‍♀️ [/quote]
It is, in fact, award-winning. 🤷‍♀️ 
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I mean, it seems very similar to The Office, which ran for what, 9 seasons? And was primarily white, if you want to bring race into it in that way.  And that show launched some great careers. This is just as funny and we are still getting to know the characters. [/quote]

The Office had a pretty diverse cast, actually. I'm surprised you don't know that! The four leads were white (Jim, Pam, Michael Scott, Dwight) but the rest of the cast was a real mix.

It's not that similar to The Office - The Office was much pricklier. I think the main similarity is that they're both single camera shows, done in the mockumentary style (enough of the mockumentary style!), set primarily in a workplace. But the tone is different, the characters are very different, the office setting is very different. I mean at its root, The Office is essentially about finding meaning in the middle of something meaningless - it's set at a paper factory, which is devoid of real purpose, but these weirdo characters find friendship, pathos, love, drama, hilarity, authenticity, and the full range of human experience there. While Abbott Elementary is set at a place with real stakes - but where the environment is designed to make it difficult to fulfill the important purpose. The characters primarily struggle with this contradiction (or not) in their various ways, together and alone. They rise to the occasion, and don't. I would say the main flaw so far of Abbott Elementary is that it's not much about the relationships between the characters yet, so much as the relationships of the characters to the setting - and how they bump up against each other in that.

Anyway, I also think Parks & Rec is different from both those shows, even with its workplace setting and single camera, and mockumentary style.
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